Comments by "Rob Fraser" (@krashd) on "H I Sutton" channel.

  1. I wonder if any sub maker has experimented with using nuclear decay heat as a power source on an AIP sub. The soviets used it for everything from powering satellites to powering unmanned relay outposts, you likely wouldn't get enough juice out of decay heat to run a propeller but you could certainly gradually recharge batteries with it - and a couple of them would take up about as much space as a minifridge. I would be surprised if the Russians haven't tried it on their diesel fleet seeing as a small power source is still better than having no power source if you're submerged when your batteries run out.
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  2. The UK built a lot of the world's warships prior to the 1920's so they likely got a lot of standards from us, I know we built ships for Argentina, Brazil and Turkey that all used 21" torpedoes and we definitely built Japan a fair few surface ships.
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  3. Yep, those are VLS tubes.
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  4.  @zhufortheimpaler4041  Exactly, at the moment the US are trying to bully Turkey into dropping their Russian-bought missile system so they can flog them a US-bought system. I wish Westminster would realise that the US are no more our friends than China is.
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  5. I'm surprised the French won't.
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